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You don’t want us in a superstate, Obama

As in Beauty and the Beast, the wicked and ugly American imperialist has
suddenly morphed into a handsome prince. Or at least that is the left’s
latest fairy tale.

When David Cameron was advised last week by one of President Barack Obama’s
top diplomats to avoid a British exit from the European Union, the
anti-American brigade failed to protest at another unwarranted interference
by Washington in our domestic affairs.

Yet 10 years ago hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were doing precisely
that.

They poured onto London’s streets to denounce “the poodle Blair” for allegedly
taking orders from President George W Bush. Britain was then set to join the
American campaign to oust Saddam Hussein from Iraq.

So now we know: it’s not the principle of kowtowing to Washington that is
objectionable to the left, merely the choice of president to whom to kowtow.